Class Number: 1322This course surveys rights- and justice-based justifications for ethical positions on the environment. It examines approaches such as stewardship, intrinsic value, land ethic, deep ecology, ecofeminism, Asian and aboriginal. It explores issues such as obligations to future generations, to nonhumans and to the biosphere.Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC), Critical Interpretation (CI);, ; Haverford: Humanities (HU)Part of the 360: China & the Environment, Open to all students. This360 cluster, comprised of courses in philosophy, history (East AsianStudies), and economics, will look at the many environmental problemsand issues that beset our contemporary world. We will explore theenvironment from the perspective of several disciplines: philosophy(both "Western" and "Eastern"), economics, history, politics, andnatural science. Our readings, class discussion, and student researchwill bring these different disciplinary perspectives to bear onspecific environmental questions. Experts in the science, economics,and politics of these questions will come to campus and visit theclasses. The cluster will concentrate particularly (but notexclusively) on the environmental problems of China and study howChina is dealing with them. Students and faculty will travel to China(tentatively March 8-22) to experience the environmental problemsfirst hand and to meet with leading experts on these issues, bothresearchers and officials. Applications due November 6th: https://brynmawr.wufoo.com/forms/360a-preregistration-china-and-the-environment/

Class Number: 1322This course surveys rights- and justice-based justifications for ethical positions on the environment. It examines approaches such as stewardship, intrinsic value, land ethic, deep ecology, ecofeminism, Asian and aboriginal. It explores issues such as obligations to future generations, to nonhumans and to the biosphere.Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC), Critical Interpretation (CI);, ; Haverford: Humanities (HU)Part of the 360: China & the Environment, Open to all students. This360 cluster, comprised of courses in philosophy, history (East AsianStudies), and economics, will look at the many environmental problemsand issues that beset our contemporary world. We will explore theenvironment from the perspective of several disciplines: philosophy(both "Western" and "Eastern"), economics, history, politics, andnatural science. Our readings, class discussion, and student researchwill bring these different disciplinary perspectives to bear onspecific environmental questions. Experts in the science, economics,and politics of these questions will come to campus and visit theclasses. The cluster will concentrate particularly (but notexclusively) on the environmental problems of China and study howChina is dealing with them. Students and faculty will travel to China(tentatively March 8-22) to experience the environmental problemsfirst hand and to meet with leading experts on these issues, bothresearchers and officials. Applications due November 6th: https://brynmawr.wufoo.com/forms/360a-preregistration-china-and-the-environment/